Gentlemen, has anyone tried using a load with Vista yet? I have bad feeling that the new default security settings will block the normal way a loader is used. Anyone got any experience or thoughts on this?
John J. Henn

>Hi Mike,
>
>A "launcher", also called a "loader", is a very small program which does the following:
>1. Check if the local file(s) are older than the server files
>2. If yes to 1, copy the new files from the server to the local machine
>3. Often the program also does some other stuff, like making sure that local directories exist and so on
>4. Start the local EXE. For logical reasons, the local EXE always another name than the "loader" application.
>
>If done properly, the "loader" program never changes. Personally my loader program scans a Visual FoxPro table which contains instructions of what to do, and which program to start.
>
>Search for Loader in the download section for some ready made ones.
>